[Web4lib] thesaurus for portal & MS wiki app?

Wed Aug 1 11:58:13 EDT 2007

We're implementing SP as an intranet portal for our Library staff (not the whole campus, which uses Vignette).  The "wiki" site is not bad, but it's not as easy to use as the more specialized wiki services, like PBWiki or JotSpot.  One very irritating aspect is adding images to a page.  You have to first upload the image into the image library, then browse the library and select the image, then copy the URL of the image, then go back to your page to edit it, and enter the URL in the "add image" input box.  For image-heavy sites, like for procedures and how-to sites, this can be much more laborious than PBWiki, where the upload function is embedded with the insert image feature.  

Another aspect that I have not figured out is creating a hierarchical page list.  At least in PBWiki, you can fake it by manually creating a list of pages on the sidebar.  But I haven't figured out yet how to do the same in SP.  I think it won't be hard...at the very least, you can put it on the home page.

Overall, though, the SP wiki is decent.  It's easy to create and edit pages (aside from the image part) with a WYSIWYG editor.  Besides linking, I haven't really used any wiki-syntax, but then I was never really a fan of that.  WYSIWYG is much better.

Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-8946
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/ 

>>> On 8/1/07 at 10:29 AM, in message <BD2384CED8410B40A1620A83097F94FC02024F9E at cesrv010.eugene1.net>, "HAZEL Margaret E" <margaret.e.hazel at ci.eugene.or.us> wrote:
I'm interested in your post for two reasons:

- The City of which we are a part recently implemented a Plumtree (now
BEA) portal, and realized, after the librarians got up in arms, that
they needed to work on their search engine, and one of the problems was
the thesaurus.  There is one, we're not sure if we can edit it, or even
what's in it.  Or how to decide what to add.  We're at least adding
keywords to pages, now, not just to documents linked to the site.

- The City, being a Microsoft shop, is uninterested in non-Microsoft
wiki apps, but think that Sharepoint might work as a wiki.  But they
don't have it high on their list. Do you or others on the list have
experience using Sharepoint as a wiki, and can you talk about pros and
cons?

Thanks!

-Margaret

Margaret E. Hazel
Principal Librarian, Technology
Eugene Public Library
Eugene, OR

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Subject: [Web4lib] Developing a thesaurus for portal

Hi

I just joined the list and coincidentally I have a question for it, too.

I an a librarian in a medium sized regional law firm. We have
implemented Lawport, which is an intranet portal that uses MS Sharepoint
as its base. We've let a system of categories grow organically in the
first few months of using the system. The categories act like a
thesaurus in that we can organize/control the various postings and
documents across the many pages through them. Now the number of terms
are getting a little unweildy and we need to mold them in a more
systematic way. 

Has anyone built a thesaurus for a portal from scratch? Any good ideas
on where to start? Also, anyone with similar experience in a law library
or specialized setting (academic or otherwise) would be ideal. 

The thesaurus will extend beyond the library to all parts of the portal.
I suppose this is more of a KM question, but I know this kind of
planning ought to fall within the library's domain.

Thanks

Andy Murdoch
Librarian
McInnes Cooper
Halifax, NS

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